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" The machine at work : "
Keith Grint and Steve Woolgar.
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880642
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Grint, Keith.
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The machine at work : : technology, work, and organization /\ Keith Grint and Steve Woolgar.
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Cambridge, UK :: Polity Press ;Malden, MA :: Published in the USA by Blackwell,, 1997.
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vii, 199 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0745609244
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: 0745609252
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: 9780745609249
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: 9780745609256
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-194) and index.
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| Abstract
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This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization. The Machine at Work includes a reinterpretation of the Luddites; a review of the social processes of development in information technology; a reassessment of theories of the role of technology in work; and an analysis of the common limitations of some constructivist and feminist perspectives on technology. The book argues that only a commitment to a particular conception of constructivism enables the kind of radical rethinking about technology and work relations that is needed.
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This text will be of interest to students in a range of subject areas - from sociology, organizational theory and behaviour, to industrial relations, management and business studies.
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Employees-- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Human-machine systems.
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Work-- Forecasting.
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Personnel, Effets des innovations sur le.
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Systèmes homme-machine-- Commande manuelle.
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Travail-- Prévision.
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Arbeit
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Arbeitssoziologie
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Automation
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Employees-- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Human-machine systems.
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Soziologie
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Technischer Fortschritt
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Technologie
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Work-- Forecasting.
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Automation.
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Arbeid.
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Arbeidsorganisatie.
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Technische ontwikkeling.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.25
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HD6331.G75 1997
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71.43bcl
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71.43.bcl
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CW 3000rvk
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MS 4850rvk
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Woolgar, Steve.
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